Midwestern growers don't worry much about soybean rust, but the fungal disease has been popping up at the end of the growing season nearly every year since 2006. But because the fungus can't survive ...

A leading plant breeder is advocating seed treatments against brown rust for most sowings this autumn. His advice comes against an anticipated surge in early drillings, likely extra pressure from the ...

Kansas State University wheat breeder Allan Fritz is working on durable leaf-rust resistance in new wheat varieties. Combining several resistance genes that, individually, impart only a minor level of ...

It took decades of painstaking work, but a research geneticist managed to cross a popular soybean variety with a related wild perennial plant that grows like a weed in Australia, producing the first ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- It took decades of painstaking work, but research geneticist Ram Singh managed to cross a popular soybean variety ("Dwight" Glycine max) with a related wild perennial plant that ...